The Role of Graphic Design
Tennessee Arts Commission • Through July 25
Through innovative logos, creative advertisements, inviting product packaging,
and more we are surrounded by graphic design everywhere. It is the art of
communication.

From an entry pool of nearly 200, John Wilkinson’s
watercolor portrait Ivory was one of 50 paintings
selected by jurist Pat Dews for the Tennessee
Watercolor Society’s 34th Juried Exhibition at
O’More College of Design last month. Ivory went
on to win Best of Show and a $1,500 purse.
Strong design, color, content, and technical skill
were among the criteria Dews used in judging.
Congratulations, John Wilkinson! Ivory gives
us all that and more.
For more information, visit www.tnws.org.

The exhibition Construct/Connect:
The Role of Graphic Design,
c u r rent ly on v iew at t he
Tennessee Arts Commission,
examines the elements and
process of graphic design
through the works of four
local professionals: Lindsey
Armstrong, Graphic Designer
and Art Director at the
Redpepper Agency, Stephen
Jones, Creative Director and
Owner of GoGo Jones, Luke
How a rd , Web De ve loper
and Graphic Desig ner at
Crowd Surf, LLC, and Trent
Thibodeaux, lead Graphic
Designer at Third Man Records.
With the help of Dan Brawner,
Chair of the Graphic Design
Program at Watkins College of Trent Thibodeaux, Divine Fits Screenprint poster
Art, Design & Film, the show takes viewers step by step from the idea phase to
the finished product.
Construct/Connect: The Role of Graphic Design is on display at the Tennessee
Arts Commission. Visit www.tn.gov/arts for more information.

FAMILY BUSINESS
Coop Gallery • Through July 26
In the exhibit Hyeon Jung Kim, The Family Business of Human Element
Removal, the artist draws upon her experience at her family’s dry-cleaning
business to turn accumulations of hangers, tags, clothing, and other products
into an insightful and appealing video and 3D installation.
A first-generation immigrant from Seoul, Korea, Kim was continually exposed
to the labor and processes involved in delivering clean, pressed clothing to
customers. She writes, “In my art practice, I engage in my own repetitive
process with similar intensity towards dirty to clean, removal of waste of
objects and materials.”
Hyeon Jung Kim, The Family Business of Human Element Removal will remain
on view at Coop Gallery, 75 Arcade. For more information, visit www.
coopgallery.org. To see more of Kim’s work, visit www.hyeonjungkim.com.
Still from Labyrinth video
14 | July 2014 NashvilleArts.com